Numbering machine for line-casting machines



A. COELHO.

NUMBERING MACHINE FOR LINE CASTING MACHINES APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, :92].

1,432,,Q4a1 o v Patented 001;. 17, 1922.

2 SHEETS-S.HEET 1.

INVENTOR ARTHUR COELHO MM ATTORNEY A. COELHO.

NUMBERING MACHINE FOR LINE CASTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, I921.

IALSQAQIL Patented Oct 2 SHEETS-SHED 2.

CENTERLINEL AR HUR COELHO.

ATTORNEY Fatented Unit. 17, 1922.

UlhlliTEll) STAWS ARTHUR COELHO, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

NUMBERING MACHINE FOR LINE-CASTING MACHINES.

Application filed November 12, 1921.

T 0 (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR COELHO, a citizen of Brazil, residing at Brooklyn,,New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Numbering Machines for Line-(lasting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a numbering machine or mechanism for use in a linotype or line casting machine and is to do automatically what is now done by hand through a tedious process. At present, wherever pages or other units are to be numbered consecutively or in series, the linotype operator must set up an entire line each time with only the number changed so it is the object of my invention to devise a mechanism for doing this automatically.

My invention then, consists essentially in a series of matrices associated together including therein number printing or casting mechanism, automatically operated, whereby a series of symbols or numbers are produced. The operator desiring to cast lines sequentially related, places one of my numbering devices into the assembler of the machine as a component part of the line and then locks the first elevator in the repeating position. The numbering machine will then be automatically operated by the first elevator transferring bar to present consecutive or other series of numbers or symbols in casting position. The mechanism is entirely included within a series of associated matrices of the usual contour so that no change is necessary in the line casting machinein order to use the numbering machine of this invention.

l have herein described one embodiment of my invention which is the best of which I aIIi at present informed but it is to be understood that this embodiment is only chosen for the purpose of illustration and should not be taken in a limiting sense but obviously many different embodiments of this invention are possible without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

The embodiment chosen for the purpose of illustration is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which 7 Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device;

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through my device;

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse view taken along the line 3-3 in Fi 2;

Serial No. 5 14,714.

liners or thin blank matrices to prevent any metal flowing from one matrix to its adjacent one. Upon the shaft 17 are mounted succeedingly shorter. telescopic sleeves or shafts 18 and 19. From these shafts are operated the number or symbol casting wheels 20, 21. and 22 which are respectively mounted on shafts 17, 18 and 19, the said number casting wheels being respectively mounted for rotation within matrices 16, 15 and 14L. The numbering wheels are splined to their respective shafts as at- 23.

Ratchet wheels 24, 25 and 26 are respectively carried on the other ends of the shafts l7, l8 and 19 by being keyed thereto as at 27 and the ratchet wheels are respectively housed within the matrices 11, 12 and 13. The ratchet wheels 24, 25 and 26 are provided with usual ratchet teeth 28 and the wheel 26 is operated by means of a pivoted pawl 29 engaging the teeth 28 of the ratchet, the pawl being mounted on a lever 30 pivotally operated by means of a depressible pin 31 operated by the vertical reciprocation of the first elevator transferring bar 32. A spring is provided. to assist the lever 30 to return to normal position and a spring 34 is provided pressing upon the pawl 29 to make it readily engageable with the ratchet wheel 26. By this construction it can be seen that every time the first elevator transferring bar is depressed. the pin 31 is depressed, the lever 30 pivotally moved to bring the pawl 29 upwardly, whereby the ratchet 26 is rotated. The ratchet 26 is keyed to the shaft 18 so that the ratchet 26, in rotating, rotates the sleeve 19 and the sleeve 19 in rotating, rotates the number casting wheel 22 one step to present the next desired numbering face on the casting wheel to the casting position, that is, the casting face 0 may be changed to 1 or 1 0. Between each casting face, grooves 33 are provided and pawls 34 and 35 are provided to slip into and engage the grooves 33 on each side of the numbering face when in casting position, to serve the double purpose of positively holding the number casting face in casting position and to provide shoulders 36 and 37 to assist in the casting of a line. The pawls 34 and are spring pressed in molding face holding position by means of springs 38 and-39 respectively. However, the very pressure of the machine disc mold will help to adjust the pawls when it comes against the matrix line for the purpose of casting.

Similarly, the shaft or sleeve 18. has a ratchet wheel 25 housed at one end thereof in matrix 12 and at the other end has splined thereon a numbering wheel 21 housed by matrix 15 and in the same way the shaft 17 has ratchet 2S keyed thereto at one end housed by a matrix 1.1 and the other end has splined thereon the number molding wheel 20 housed in matrix 16. Movement of a ratchet through one step rotates the shaft to which it is secured, whereb the number ing wheel splined to that shaft is moved to present the next consecutive or desired number thereon to casting position.

Ratchet 26 has pivotally secured thereto a pawl 40 located between it and the adjacent ratchet wheel 25, the pawl 40 having a laterally extending finger or lug 41 for engagement with the teeth 28 on the adjacent ratchet wheel 25 and the ratchet wheel 25 has a similar element 40 with its lug 41 for engagement with the next ad= jacent ratchet wheel 24. A spring 42 is provided. to coact with the pawls 40 and 40 to keep them extended and the lugs 41 or 41 away from or out of engagement with the teeth on the adjacent ratchet wheel. A protuberance or projection 43 is provided interiorly on the matrix adjacent the ratchet wheel adapted to be engaged by pawl 40 'as the ratchet wheel rotates, whereby the -pawl 40 is depressed or pivotally moved against the spring 42 whereby the lug 41 engages the adjacent ratchet wheel to lock the two ratchet wheels together and to move them through one step of rotation as a unit. As soon as this step is finished and the pawl 40 passes out of contact with the projection 43, the spring 42 acts to free the pawl from engagement with the adjacent ratchet wheel, whereby the adjacent ratchet wheel is not effected but the continued rotation of the ratchet wheel carries the pawl forward. I

Matrices 15 and 16 are cut out interiorly at 44 so that they can be moved vertically with respect to the numbering wheels which they house. When the matrix is "in the lower position (Fig. 4) the numbering wheel 20'has between it and the casting metal 45, the pawl 34 so that when the maincluding 9.

these rods lie in slots 48 and 49 respectively to permit and limit this upper and lower movement of the matrices. The upper or higher position of the matrix represents the same position in which an ordinary matrix is placed when it is desired to make italics and the lower position is the usual casting position for ordinary matrices.

My number casting device is put into the assembler of the linotype or other machine and the rest the line is filled out with space bands and the book head title or whatever else is desired to be printed in line with the numbers. The device is so placed in the machine that when the first elevator moves upwardly to the transferring bar,

the matrices of my device are somewhat free in their longitudinal wire bar holders which renders more easily accomplishable the changing of the position of the wheels by the striking of the first elevator against the transferring bar. WVhen the line is brought down again to casting position, the usual automatic justification takes place wherein the numbering device is justified as a component part of the line and is gripped in this adjusted position by the holding jaws of the machine so there will be no space whatever between the casting matrices at the moment the metal casts the line.

The operator begins by putting my numbering device in the higher position on the left side of the assembler of the machine, filling the re'st'of the line with whatever is desired-that is a title or space bands or blanks. This filling of the rest of the line is in the usual way, however, the two last matrices 15'and 16 are placed in lower position and then the line is readyto becast.

l)epression of the first elevator transferring bar 32 co-acting with the pin 31 and its pawl, rotates the unit casting wheel 22 from 1 to 2 as previously described until the unit number castingwheel has cast up to and It should be remembered that durin'g this interval the matrices 15 and 16 have been in lower position so that the number wheels 21 and 20 have been prevented, by means of the pawls 34 from coming into contact withthe casting'metal 45. When the first nine lines or numbers have been cast, the operator releases, or presses with his finger, the first elevator jaw rail and by so doing. raises the matrix 15 into higher position (Fig. 5) whereby its numbering face can now have casting effect'upon the thereby be cast. F or each depression of the first elevator transferring bar 32, the number cast will be changed consecutively from 10 to 19. At this stage of operation, the pawl -10 on the ratchet wheel 26 will engage the protuberance 43 and be depressed until its lug All engages'a tooth 28 on its adjacent ratchet 25 housed in matrix 12 whereby rotation of the ratchet- 26 (and its shaft 19 and number wheel 22) will cause the ratchet 25 (its sleeve 18 and its number wheel 21) to be moved one step whereby the number casting face on the number wheel 21 will be changed from 1 to 2 and therefore, the numeral 20 will be cast at the next step after 19.

Repeated depression of the transferring bar will cause the numbers from20 to 29 to be cast as above described, and the change from 29 to 30 will take place as just described for the change from 19 to 20. This cycle of operation will be repeated until the numeral 99 has been cast, it being remembered that, during the casting of the numbers from 10 to 99, the matrix 16 has remained in lower position whereby its number wheel 20 has been prevented from having any casting function. After 99 has been cast, the operator again pressesthe first elevator jaw rail which raises the matrix 16 into higher position whereby, in

conjunction with the number-on the casting wheel 20, 100 is presented in casting position. The casting of numbers from 100 to 199 is carried out by the same operations described for the number 11 to 99 but after the casting of the 199, the pawl 49 of the ratchet 26 engages the protuberance 13, whereby the lug 41 engages a tooth on its adjacent ratchet 25 (to move the ratchet 25, its sleeve 18 and its numbering casting wheel 21 from 9 to 0 position and this movement oi the ratchet 25 causes its pawl 4C0 to en age with the protuberance 43', whereby, its lug 41 engages the ratchet 24: to turn it, its shaft 17 and its wheel 20 from its 1 position to its 2 position, whereby the next number cast will be 200. These various operations will then be repeated up to 999. If larger numbers are desired to be cast, this mechanism can be expanded to almost any extent as the parts above described need only to be duplicated, the principle of operation remaining the same.

The description so far deals only with the casting of numbers at the right hand side of the line but to cast numbers at the left hand side, the device, by having its parts detachable, can be reversed and put in the assembler at the right side with its respective matrices, numbering wheels and ratchets so reversed that the ratchets will work and lie at the left hand side instead of the right hand side as shown in Fig. 2 and the number casting wheels will operate and lie at the right hand side of the device, instead of at the left hand as in Fig. 2. By this detachable, reversible arrangement of the parts, the numbers can be formed at the very end of the line either to the right or the left. It is to be understood that the various parts of the device are not held in place of themselves, but are simply assembled and when in position between the jaws, it is the pres sure of the jaws that maintains the various parts of the. device in their proper position with respect to each other.

In some instances, such as in printing the Bible, dictionaries or the like, the pagesiare numbered in the center of the page and for such printing,the device must print a series of consecutive numbers instead of alternative numbers as previously described, that is, it must print a series of consecutive numbers including both'the odd and the even numbers, so to that end,-I have'devised an adjustable stop mechanism 50 in the matrix 13 whose function it is'to normally prevent the downward movement of the pawl 34 through a distance greater than enough to engage one tooth at a time of the ratchet 26 for-if the pawl only engages one tooth at a time, the numbers cast will beconsecutive.

However, if the stop 50 is so adjusted that it does not influence the pawl '34 to limit its downward movement, its downward movement is such that it will engage alternate teeth'on the ratchet 26, whereby the ratchet will be rotated a distance of two teeth at a time, (instead of one tooth previously described) and therefore, alternate numbers will be cast.- Naturally, ifthis control 50 is thrown off just after an odd number has been oast,the device will go on casting odd numbers, whereas if it is thrown off just after an even number has been cast, the 'de vice will cast even numbers. I

When numbers'are required to be printed even or aligned with the page composition, adjustment of the jaws will be necessary if the abovedescrlibed complete device is used.

However, taking into consideration the low cost of such a device, it may be advisable to have a numbering device constructed with less capacity' That is, a device could be made having only two matrices, one I of which housed the ratchet wheel and the other of which housed a number casting wheel having a capacity only of from 1 to 9. The second device to be made having four matrices, two of which house ratchet wheels while the other two matrices house number casting wheels for casting the numbers from 10 to 99 and a third device could be had, having six matrices with a ratchet wheel in each of three of them and a number wheel in each of the other three whose casting capacity would be from 100 to 999. With such a device, the operator has nothing to do but to repeat the line until he comes to the limit of capacity of the device, whenhe must remove it and replace it with the numbering device with the next capacity in sequence. It may be under certain conditions that the matrix housing the ratchet wheels may need to be more-strongly constructedand if so, theyflmay be reinforced or faced by having their adjacent lines secured thereto or as these matrices are always in higher position, they could have a top extension applied to them.

It is clear that this invention is applicable to'any line casting machines and is not limited to the casting of numbers for it obviously could cast any. words,'symbols or numbers whiohare printed in sequence such as the months of the'year, the days of the week, etc. I

What I claim is: 1. In combination in a line casting machine, a plurality ofmatrices and a numberingcasting mechanism contained. within'and forming a part of said matrices.

2. In combination in a line casting machine, having a molding position and. afirst elevator transferring bar, a plural ity of matrices, a plurality OfCOIlSEOUtlVGf number casting faces, and automatic means operated by. said first elevator transferring .bar for bringing said number casting faces into casting position.

3. In combination in aline casting machine having a casting position, a plurality of matrices. containingtherewithin a plurality of consecutive number casting faces, and automatic means for bringing said number casting faces into casting position in sequence.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, in Which the automatic means includes depressible operating means.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 with the addition of means for locking the number casting faces in casting position.

6. The apparatus of claim 3. with the addition of pivoted locking means for the number casting faces, and means associated with said faces coacting with said pivoted means to lock the faces in casting position.

7. The apparatus of claim 3 in which the number casting faces are carried by wheels.

8. In combination in a line casting machlne, a numbering. mechanism having the contour of a, plurality of matrices contain- :chine, a numbering mechanismhaving the contour of a plurality of matrices, a shaft ,therein, a sleeve on said shaft, a number 'castlng wheel and ratchet wheel secured on sald shaft, a number casting wheel and a ratchet wheel secured on saidsleeve, means for operating said ratchet, wheel and shaft step by stepin one direction, and automatic .means for intermittently operating said ratchet, sleeve and wheel, from the ratchet on saidshaft. 1

- 11. The apparatus of claim 10 in which both of said-means aredepressible.

12.;The apparatus of clalim 10 in which said {ratchets-are'adjacent each other and the automatic means for operating one from the other includes pawl means.

13. In combination in a line casting Inachine havingacasting position, a plurality of matrices containing therewithin a plural ity of number casting faces, automatic means for bringing said faces into casting position, andmeans for controlling these quence with which said faces are brought into casting position. I

14. In. combination in a line casting mach ine, a plurality of matrices containing therewithin a number casting wheel lin each of said matrices. means for presenting numbers on said wheels into casting position in sequence, and means for renderingthe wheel of at least one of said matrices ineffective.

15. In combination ina lline casting. machine, a mechanism having: the contour of a plurality of matrices. said mechanism having automatic means for casting a. series of symbols in sequence. a

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature to this specification.

ARTHUR COELHO. 

